Little Rock-based Nephropathology Associates, PLC (“Nephropath”) notified HHS of a breach impacting 1,260 patients. In a substitute notice on their web site, they explain: On July 30, 2015 a Nephropath employee inadvertently transmitted a data-set including both Protected Health Information (PHI) and de-identified information to a vendor via unsecured e-mail. The vendor was the intended recipient of the…
Category: Exposure
Miami-Dade patient information compromised
Daniel Chang reports: About 150 clients of the Florida Department of Health’s Children’s Medical Services program in Miami-Dade may have had their personal information compromised after vendors were faxed a clinic roster containing names, birth dates and membership numbers, agency officials reported Friday. […] The breach occurred when four vendors that provide services to the…
“Weev” obtains, leaks 11 undercover Planned Parenthood videos blocked by court
LifeSiteNews reports: The website GotNews.com claims it has obtained and released “all” the remaining undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials shot by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), including videos that were blocked from being released to the public by a court order. Eleven previously unseen videos have been uploaded to YouTube. The website’s founder,…
FL: Osceola County children’s personal information posted online
WFTV reports that they’ve uncovered an error that exposed personal information of children in Osceola County online. Reyes found names for every child charged in [court cases in the state] and names of children in foster care in Osceola County. The children’s names in juvenile court cases are supposed to be confidential and seemingly should not have been…
WikiLeaks releases documents from CIA director’s personal AOL account
Sam Thielman reports: WikiLeaks on Wednesday released documents it said had been collected from CIA director John Brennan’s personal AOL account, the first in what the group said would be a series of publications. […] The embarrassing leaks include a questionnaire for the official’s security clearance marked: “Review copy – Do not retain.” Other documents included…
More disclosures in the wake of the Systema Software data leak
On October 16, Millers Mutual Group started notifying claimants whose information was stored on Systema Software’s server. The leak was first disclosed by DataBreaches.net in September, and Millers says they first learned of it on September 23, apparently weeks after other entities were notified by the vendor or Chris Vickery, who had discovered the leak. In a letter to…